Hearing Fang Yun's words, everyone imagined themselves in his position. He was right: they would surely have done the same.
"Seeing certain people's literary guts covered in dust-I don't know how anyone else feels, but I'm delighted! Come, on this Mid-Autumn night, let's drink to Void Sage Fang!" The Wu Lord raised his cup high and drained it in one gulp.
Everywhere, those who had wine raised their cups and drank.
"What satisfaction! A true man should repay kindness and settle grudges with a free and fearless heart! How could a Void Sage of our Human Race suffer humiliation at the hands of these demons and goblins?" Dumb Great Scholar Tian Songshi set down his cup and looked at Fang Yun with immense pleasure.
Just then, Fang Shouye, military governor of Xiang Prefecture, strode to the foot of Yueyang Tower and used Tongue Blossoms Thunder. "Your subordinate, Fang Shouye, has a matter to report."
"The literary assembly is at its height. What matter cannot wait until later?" Fang Yun seemed unaware of what Fang Shouye intended to do.
"This is a grave matter concerning the safety of Xiang Prefecture. I have no choice but to take up the literary assembly's time," Fang Shouye said.
"Very well. Speak."
"Yes! Just as the midnight watch began, disturbances suddenly broke out simultaneously across Xiang Prefecture. In some cities, people used chrysanthemums as their identifying mark and openly incited the people of Xiang Prefecture to betray their country, declaring that you would soon lose the literary contest and become a disgrace to Jing Kingdom, and so forth. In some towns and villages, gangs of local thugs gathered to harass the residents, hoping to hand their communities over to Qing Kingdom. Others reused an old trick, setting houses ablaze and smashing up shops belonging to